Improvement in magazine fire-arms



P.' W. TIESING. Magazine Fire-'Arml Patented Dec. 16,1879'.

www f@ 'UNITED STATES Parralv'r'g OFFICE.

FRANK W. TIESING, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS.`

Spcciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,749, dated December 1G, 1879; application tiled l March 31, 1879.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. TIESING, ot New Haven, in the county ot' New Haven and State ot' Connecticut, have invented a new lmprovement in Magazine Fire-Arms; and do I hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description otl the saine, which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iii- Figure 1, a sectional side view with the parts in normal condition; Fig. 2, the same View, position of parts as in operation for charging the arm, Fig. 3, section on line 1r, Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of magazine tire-arms in which the magazine Vis arranged below the barrel,

and a carrier combined with a longitudnallymoving breechpiece to transfer the cartridge from the magazine to the barrel 5. and the invention consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A is the barrel B, the magazine, of usual form and relative arrangement; C, the breechpiece, arranged to be moved longitudinally,

' here represented by means of a lever, D, ex-

tending down below the frame to form the handle E, which also serves as the triggerguard.

This arrangement of lever and breech-piece is substantially that known as the Burgess patent of July 1G, 1872. Other devices may be employed for moving the breech-piece without departing from the general principle of this invention. i

F is the carrier, extending yto the rear, and hung upon a pivot, a, so that when the forward end is raised, as in Fig. 1, it will be substantially in line with the barrel.

To operate the carrier, an arm, b, extends down from the lever D near the point where the lever is pivoted to the breechpiece. This arm works in a mortise or slot through the carrier, as seen in Fig. 3, and in one side of the arm there is a stud, d, provided with a spring, the tendency of which is to force the stud d outward. As seen in Figs. l and 3, this studs stands in a slot, e, in the carrier.

1t will be observed that the carrier is u p when the breech-piece is fully closed, as in Fig. 1l.

Vhen the lever begins to i turn downward to open the breech, the studd, working in the slot e in the carrier, turns the carrier downward, as seen in Fig. 2, broken lines Sindicating the position of the breech-piece and lever when the carrierV is completely dropped, so that the carrier is completely opened during the tirst part ot' the rearward movement ot the breech'piece and but a small portion of its full movement; then continuing the movement of the lever to complete the movement of the breech-piece, the stud d turns in the slot e, so as. to present its inclined side to the rear, as in Fig. 2, solid lines; then the still-continued movement ot' the lever will force the stud d inward. so as to pass onto the inner surface ot' the carrier, and the stud will-be held in that position until it arrives at the notch or slot j', as seen in broken lines 4, Fig. 2, when the stud will be free to move outward into the said notch f. A

rFhe result of thus dropping the carrier at the start of the breech-piece rearward is that the cartridge t'or the magazine will follow the breech-piece and pass onto the carrier with- Vout any sudden throw, as is the case in the class ot' arms in which the cartridge does not pass from the magazine until the breechpiece is fully opened, as in the Burgess arm before referred to, and which sudden movement ot' the cartridge throws it with great force against the breechpiece, sufficient in the case of long cartridges to sometimes cause explosion, as the primer is liable to come in contact with a projecting part ot' the breech-piece; but under this improvement the cartridge, following, as it does, the breech-piece, is saved from any such force or dit'culty.

When the breech is fully opened and the cartridge in its position on the carrier, the 1ever is turned backward, which forces the stud d against the forward side of the notch f in the carrier, causing the carrier to instantly rise to the position seen in Fig. 1, and present .breech-piece completely locked.

. in front of the breech-piece inclined to theline the cartridge forward ot the breech piece. The stud d, passing down out of the notch f and below the edge h of the carrier, holds the carrier elevated until the stud arrives at the position indicated in broken lines 6; then the bevel side of the stud lies vertically'beneath the slot c in the carrier, and in the completion of the movementof the lever is forced by the carrier into itsarm until it arrives in line with the slot e, as seen in Fig. l; then it flies outward into the slot e. The cartridge in this movement is forced to the barrel and the Another great'advantage of this 'improve-Y ment arises from the fact that the carrier can-y not beraised or moved atall unless thebreechpiece be complctelyopened,the connection for raising the carrierbeingmadeinstantaneously, and not during a part of the movement ofthe breech-piece, as in previous constructions; hence, if lthe brcech-piece'be not completely opened, this engagement will not take place, and the result will be that the cartridge on the carrier will be returned to the magazine from whence it came, and the shell on the, face of the breeclrpiece, held by the extractor, will be returned to the barrel, it being understood that in nearly all of this class ot' arms the ejection of the shell occurs on the completion of the rear movement of the breech-piece.

In the arm as usually constructed, where the ejection fails and the carrier is moved upward the arm is clogged because ot' the cartridge below and the shell above coming together.

Other advantages of this peculiar movement ot' the breech-piece-that is to say, so as to allowA a cartridge from the magazine to follow the breech-piece-will be apparent to those skilled in the art'without heilig particularly pointedout in this specification.

rlhe connection between the breech-piece and the carrier (here shown to produce this peculiar movement) is sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to adapt this invention to arms in which the breech-piece is moved by devices differing from the lever herein mentioned, and also that, if preferred, the carrier may be hung at a lower point, so as to present the cartridge of the barrel.

As an illustration ot` such adaptation to what are commonly called bolt-guns, I show a sectional view in Fig. 4, in which the barrel and magazine are the same asin Figs. 1 and 2. D is the bolt or breech-piece, arranged to be moved longitudinally to and from the barrel,

.as in bolt-*guns generally. E is the carrier,

hung at the rear and so as to lie in an inclined positionwhen elevated. F is a lever, hung beneath the carrier, as at j", and extending up into the path of two dogs, s and t, on the breech-piece. The dogs extends forward from its pivot s, and the dog t rearward from its pivot t', the tails ot' the two dogs toward the center. and rest on a spring, u, the tendency of which is to hold t'he'nose ot each dog d'ownward, but yet yield to allow the nose to rise when upward force is applied thereto. Under this arrangement, when the breech-piece begins its rearward or opening movement the dog t strikes upon the end of the lever F andy turns it backward. 0n the lever F is a stud, to, 'which lies within a slot, w, in the carrier,

and which communicates the movement of the lever to the carrier and turns the carrier down durln g the iirst part ot' the rearward movement of the breech-piece, and as soon as the carrier has been thus dropped vthe dog t escapes from and passes over the lever F. The breech piece continuing its rear movement, the dog s passes over the end ofthe lever until its nose drops in rear of said lever, as indicated in broken lines; then, when the breechpiece is returned, the dog s returns the lever F', and consequently raises the carrier at the beginning of the forward movement of the breech-piece.

It will be readily seen that the movement of the carrier relative to the movement otl the breech-piece is the same as that first described. I claim- The combination, in a magazine fire-arm, ot' a carrier arranged to transfer the cartridge from the magazine to a position in frontot the open breech-piece, and a lever hinged to the said breech-piece, with an arm extending downward from said lever, and mechanism, substantially such as described, to automatically engage and disengage said arm with or from the carrier, substantially as and for the purpose spccied. I

- FRANK XV. TIESING.' Witnesses:

Jos. C. EARLE, JOHN E. EARLE. 

